Posted on 08/30/2005 10:10:45 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
It is with heavy heart I write this...
I have finally reconnected with my best friend who is a paramedic who was sent from Georgia 2 days ago to Gulf Port, Mississippi before the hurricane hit.
He just reached me within the last 10 mins via emergency cell phone to tell me he was alive.
Thousands of bodies have been discovered throughout Mississippi in Gulf Port, Waveland,Hancock County,Bay of St.Louis.
They are hanging in trees and they are pulling them out 30 at a time. Entire families found drowned in their homes and washing up on shore.
The stories he could tell me were brief. National Guard is on the scene and arresting anyone seen on the streets.
The numbers are staggering and what I have been told tonight will shake people to their foundation as the numbers will be coming out in the next 24-hours of just how many people have actually perished in these and 3 other beach communities.
More to follow....
So I'm supposed to put all my faith in you solely because you work for the MSM?
BTW, the poster did not just "stir the pot and leave" as you claimed.
I guess time will tell. I sincerely hope you are right.
said the same thing to my husband last night.....horrid thought but realistic
Some fairly new material here, including 30 dead in one apartment building.
Mississippi search crews pulling bodies from rubble - railroad tracks about six blocks from beach
Houston Chronicle ^ | August 31, 2005 | THOMAS KOROSEC
Posted on 08/31/2005 2:11:38 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Heaviest loss of life appears to be from Biloxi building collapse
GULFPORT, MISS. - Stunned residents emerged from shelters and homes Tuesday to start assessing the massive damage left by Hurricane Katrina as rescuers pulled bodies from crushed homes and apartments near the coast.
The death toll in this hard-hit county rose to more than 100, but officials believe that number will rise. "There's so much rubble, we won't know for a while. But I fully expect the number to be in the hundreds," said Jason Green, assistant to the Harrison County coroner.
In an auxiliary morgue downtown, hearses unloaded bodies uncovered by search-and-rescue teams.
"Several families have brought in their dead," Green said.
County Supervisor Connie Rockco said it appears the heaviest loss of life was in east Biloxi, where an apartment building collapsed and killed 30 people.
"But there are fatalities from one end of the county to the other," Rockco said.
Gulfport Fire Chief Pat Sullivan said most of those who died in Gulfport perished in the zone of the storm surge, which pushed up to a set of railroad tracks about six blocks from the beach.
"We begged, we pleaded, we demanded. We told them they had a good chance of dying if they didn't leave. But there's only so much government can do to protect people," Sullivan said. "Too many people tried to ride it out. We can't regulate good sense."
Thought they were safe
Sullivan said many homes that survived the catastrophic Hurricane Camille in 1969 were washed away by Katrina.
"People in them thought they were safe, that lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place," he said.
In Biloxi, at the Quiet Water Beach apartments, at least 30 people died when the two-story building crumbled in the storm Monday. One resident, Joy Schovest, told the Associated Press she swam for her life.
"We grabbed a lady and pulled her out the window and then we swam with the current," said Schovest, 55, breaking into tears. "It was terrifying. You should have seen the cars floating around us. We had to push them away when we were trying to swim."
All that remained of the apartment complex was a concrete slab surrounded by a heap of red bricks that were once the building's walls. A crushed red toy wagon, jewelry, clothing and twisted boards were mixed in with the debris.
Gulfport Police Lt. Michael Shaw said he and others in his search crew carried bodies across stretches of rubble that ran blocks from the beach.
"I've lived here all my life, and in some places we were, I couldn't recognize where I was," Shaw said.
The central part of the city, near the coast, looked as though it had been rocked by an explosion. At the waterfront, the blocklong floating Copa Casino had been heaved about 200 yards onto the shore. Its sides were blown to tatters, especially on the lower levels of the roughly six-floor structure.
The floating Grand Casino also was pushed aground and came to rest several blocks west of its former location.
I don't work for the MSM anymore...I reclaimed my sould and put my talents to work for a better employer. Read my Bio.
If he didn't do a drive by posting...where is he with the updates...where is he with links to back up what he said?
I'll be really surprised if the death toll isn't in the high hundreds to thousands. If anywhere near 20% stayed behind as reported there are many dead. There is wide spread major destruction. You either drown in the water directly, get crushed between the floating debris or get tangled in debris holding you under. Not to mention impaled by flying debris...
There is so much rubble that there is no way to know now what's under it. There is little communications so people are unable to report people missing (or even know if they are missing). It is going to take weeks before we know the real toll.
Shows EXACTLY where your head is at. The MSM ain't gods, sir. They haven't likely sent well-coiffed Chatty Kathy off to Podunk, Mississippi, pop. 2500, to see how things are going there. It's in those places -- some of which, believe it or not, have absolutely no media outlets -- where the devastation could be unbelievable.
It will take weeks to dig through all the debris.
Only then will they know what's under it.
Oh Jesus...you would make just as much sense if you were running around yelling "the sky is falling".
What MFH has done...IMHO is yell fire in a crowded theater.
Birth pains. The end of this age is drawing near. Soon the whole world will have utter disaster as never seen before. It will be like this area all over the world only worse. Read the book of Revelation. God is helping people realize that they need to repent if they going to escape the time of His wrath being poured out on this evil world. People like to think of God only as loving and to forget that he is The Righteous Judge. Sin must not go unpunished. Judgment starts in The House of God. We must accept the free gift of Jesus Christ paying the penalty for our sins or pay for them ourselves. He is helping many to wake up before it is too late. The stakes are high, they are eternal.
My Favorite Headache is a longtime FReeper, not some fly-by-night poster.
It's 3:28 a.m. where I am.
Perhaps MFH has retired for the evening, unlike the rest of us idiot bozos! :-)
Is this the same MSM that said New Orleans dodged a bullet?
That the storm was weakening as it was coming in - and only a category 4?
Well the only reason there was so much destruction is because there were lots of people where people didn't use to be. The storms/earthquakes are nothing new. We now have the ability to communicate these things from all over the world when not long ago they would have gone unnoticed.
"My Favorite Headache is a longtime FReeper, not some fly-by-night poster."
So am I. What's your point?
"It's 3:28 a.m. where I am."
It's 7:33 at night on Wed. where I'm at.
Your point?
"Perhaps MFH has retired for the evening, unlike the rest of us idiot bozos! :-)"
Or perhaps he's sitting back laughing at everyone that's been worked into a frenzy over his little story.
I agree with you. There was plenty of warning! No excuses!
Sigh. I give up. It's not worth the effort.
Carry on.
But he is only yelling AFTER it burned to the ground.
The Huricane did not directly hit New Orleans...yes they dodged a bullet.
The levees broke du to the intense rain on the outer bands that overwhelmed the pumps and all the flood control measures.
Had this hit directly on New Orleans...thinsg would be much worse than what we see now.
There were only 100 children at the Children's hospital,not 300. I hate to put information out that's inaccurate. Sorry
What's surprising to me, in a perverse way, is that with hundreds of miles of coastline, and all the high tech gadgetry we have today, not ONE person managed to rig a camera to catch the storm surge coming ashore..
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